Monday 10 October 2022

Celebrating Gandhi Jayanti through Gandhi Leela - Taalam: column by Leela Venkataraman

How refreshing and fitting to mark Gandhi Jayanti with a performance of Gandhi Leela, chiming with the Ram Leela festivities, celebrating the victory of good over evil! Conceived and directed by script writer Suranya Aiyar, a unique feature of the presentation by Bhagyam Arts and Ideas at Jawahar Bhavan, New Delhi, lay in the all-inclusive nature of the theme uniting people of all ages, young and old, while providing participating opportunities for every genre of talent, from the purely recitative, to different forms of music and dance, to puppetry to pantomime and what have you. And above all, coincidentally or by design, here was a broad blueprint, which through accommodating all types of performances can usher in variety, while remaining anchored to the theme of spreading the message of the Mahatma to all levels of society.

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